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		<title>Go There: Future Christmas Wonderland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. In 1960, the downtown Osberger&#8217;s Department Store unveiled the Future Christmas Wonderland, an audio animatronic attraction that took up half of its sixth floor shopping space. Visitors were directed by temporary holiday employees in silver and gold lamé jumpsuits through a winding path past scenes of what Christmas would be like in the distant future. The display was a yearly tradition through the 1975 holiday season, replaced by a bicentennial attraction for 1976-1977 and then a standard &#8220;Santa&#8217;s Workshop&#8221; theme until the store&#8217;s closing in 1993. The pieces of the Future Christmas Wonderland were packed away, presumably forgotten. A few years ago, the family of the man who used to maintain the Wonderland discovered it in a storage space he&#8217;d rented for years near his home in Wicker Hills. When this hit the news, retirees Mary and Lewis Henry called the family and offered to take it off of their hands and they were more than happy to oblige. Mary had been the director of the DiFlorio Children&#8217;s Museum in University Center for many years and thought the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Main Avenue Tramway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the history of civic planning, there have been countless grand ideas and concepts which have never been carried out for various reasons- expense, impracticality, that sort of thing. If one were to go through the planning archives of this city alone, you’d see many plans which never came to fruition- the Northwest Expressway, the Riverfront Monorail, the Reed-Hudson Building Zeppelin Terminal, the University Monorail System, the Harris Memorial Aquacadium, the Crosstown Underground Monorail and the South Wharton Weatherproof Plastidome 2000 (proposed in 1979, with a self-contained monorail circuit). One that slipped through the cracks was the Main Avenue Tramway first proposed in 1958 by the city’s planning department. The original concept was to close ten miles of Main Avenue to automobile traffic and convert it into a pedestrian mall, serviced by electric trams which would traverse its length in an almost endless circuit. Over the objections of some on the planning board (who wanted to install a monorail system instead of trams), it was agreed to implement the plan on five blocks of Main Avenue downtown on a trial basis. Federal funds were promised to get it off the ground and, on June 6, 1961, the Main Avenue Tramway [...]]]></description>
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